List of best-selling video games

This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time. The best-selling video game to date is Tetris, a tile-matchingpuzzle video game originally released for the Electronika 60 in 1984 and then popularised upon its Game Boy release in 1989.[1] The game has been ported to a wide range of platforms and sold in excess of 170 million units,[2] including 100 million paid downloads on mobile phones[3] and 35 million as sales for the Game Boy version.[4]Minecraft is the only other video game to have sold over 100 million units, with 144 million units sold as of January 2018.[5] Excluding mobile sales, the best-selling video game of all time is Grand Theft Auto V with 90 million units sold,[6] while Tetris is the fourth best-selling with sales of 70 million units.[1] The best-selling game on a single platform is Wii Sports, with 82.83 million sales for the Wii console.[7]

Of the top 50 best-selling video games, 19 were developed or published by Nintendo, including seven of the top ten. Other publishers with multiple entries in the top 50 include Activision (seven titles, all in the Call of Duty franchise), Rockstar Games (five titles, four of which are Grand Theft Auto releases) and Electronic Arts (three games in three different series). Aside from Nintendo internal development divisions, Game Freak is the developer with the most games in the top 50, with seven titles from the Pokémon series included. The oldest game in the top 50 is Frogger, which was originally released in June 1981; the most recent game in the top 50 is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which was released in December 2017.

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Notes

^ abOnly developers and publishers for the original release of each game are listed, except where noted otherwise.

^Tetris was originally licensed and published by Spectrum HoloByte, although other publishers of early ports of the game included Mirrorsoft, Infogrames and Bullet-Proof Software. In 1996, the license to Tetris was officially transferred to The Tetris Company, which would publish later releases of the title with Bullet-Proof Software.[8]

^The 30 million unit sales of Diablo III include copies of the Reaper of Souls expansion pack in addition to the base game.[15]